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Vase paintings show boys sitting on stools holding wood-
backed wax writing tablets. They wrote on the wax with a
stylus, a sort of bone or metal pencil pointed at one end
and flattened out in a leaf shape at the other.
- The Ancient City,
Peter Connolly and Hazel Dodge
Read the passage, then use the drop-down menus to
complete the sentences.
A stylus is a
A(n)
clue shows the meaning of the word
stylus.
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Intro

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